Effect of pinching, disbudding and foliar spray of cytozyme on growth and flowering behaviour of annual chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum carinatum Schousb)

Chrysanthemum is native to the northern hemisphere closely Europe and Asia with a few in other areas. Chrysanthemum belongs to family Asteraceae or Compositae. Chrysanthemum is next to rose an importance and it is grown both for aesthetic and commercial purposes. Therefore, there is a strong need to boost the production of this flower crop. The aim of present investigation was to study the “Effect of Pinching, Disbudding and foliar spray of cytozyme on growth and flowering behaviour of annual chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum carinatum Schousb)”. The experiment was conducted at Horticultural Research Farm of Department of Applied Plant sciences (Horticulture), Baba Sahib Bhim Rao Ambedkar University Lucknow, (Uttar Pradesh) during winter season of 2007–08. Among the three different stage of pinching and disbudding of chrysanthemum viz. neither pinching nor disbudding, pinching at 30 days after transplanting and disbudding (as and when needed) and foliar spray of 0.2% cytozyme (no application, 10, 20, 30 days after transplanting). All among the factors was found promising in improving the different vegetative growth and flowering characters of chrysanthemum.